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A ONE聽Nation candidate says gay people are promoting marriage equality using mind control聽techniques聽developed by Nazis and communists.

Michelle Meyers, the party鈥檚 candidate for Bateman in WA, made the outrageous claims on Facebook.

鈥淎re you wondering why even some Christians are being swayed by the gender industry鈥檚 pitch and push for same-sex 鈥榤arriage鈥� and acceptance of fake families?鈥� she posted late last year.

鈥淚t鈥檚 not by accident, it鈥檚 a carefully contrived but disingenuous mind control program.鈥�

聽Meyers, who has previously been a candidate for the Australian Christians, went on to describe the mind control program. She claimed it was developed by two unnamed gay Norwegians and based on Nazi and communist mind control techniques.

She referred to gay people as 鈥渦nnatural, unproductive and unhealthy鈥� and said the rainbow has become a symbol of a 鈥渟exually corrupt and morally bankrupt society鈥�.

Dr Dvir Abramovich, chair of the Anti-Defamation Commission, said, 鈥淚 am increasingly concerned about the growing demonisation of the LGBTI community, and the outrageous claims by Michelle Meyers are profoundly insensitive and inappropriate.

鈥淣o matter how strongly one opposes gay marriage, invoking Nazi terminology and analogies to demean those who advocate for its legalisation has no place in civil discourse.

鈥淚 would remind Ms Meyers that gay and lesbian people were targeted and brutally murdered by Hitler鈥檚 evil regime, as part of its plan to systematically exterminate the Jewish people and others. Her statements do a great disservice to the historical truth, trivialise the Holocaust and are an insult to the memory of the victims and the survivors.

鈥淲e hope Ms Meyers will reconsider her words in the future and will stop invoking such comparisons so as to make her case.鈥�

The revelation of Meyers鈥� comments follows several other homophobic remarks by One Nation candidates in recent months.

In January, Senator Pauline Hanson backed Glasshouse candidate Tracey Bell-Henselin after her comments that the LGBTI community was 鈥渙ut to destroy families鈥�. The week prior, the party dumped Bundamba candidate Shan Ju Lin for similar online homophobic comments.

Meyers is the latest of several controversial One Nation candidates in WA.

David Archibald, candidate for Pilbara, was revealed to have written a column in 2015 criticising single mothers as 鈥渓azy鈥�. Rozane Bezuidenhout, candidate for Cannington, used Facebook to call for a return to white rule in South Africa. Ross Slater, candidate for Murray-Wellington, said聽online that marriage equality would lead to “multitudinous marriage and sibling marriage”, while claiming that countries with same-sex marriage consider heterosexuality “abnormal”.

All candidates are still endorsed by One Nation.